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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7f38 |
Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women's empowerment | |
Burney, Jennifer1; Alaofe, Halimatou2; Naylor, Rosamond3,4; Taren, Douglas2 | |
2017-09-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 12期号:9 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Although development organizations agree that reliable access to energy and energy services-one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals-is likely to have profound and perhaps disproportionate impacts on women, few studies have directly empirically estimated the impact of energy access on women's empowerment. This is a result of both a relative dearth of energy access evaluations in general and a lack of clarity on how to quantify gender impacts of development projects. Here we present an evaluation of the impacts of the Solar Market Garden-a distributed photovoltaic irrigation project-on the level and structure of women's empowerment in Benin, West Africa. We use a quasi-experimental design (matched-pair villages) to estimate changes in empowerment for project beneficiaries after one year of Solar Market Garden production relative to non-beneficiaries in both treatment and comparison villages (n=771). To create an empowerment metric, we constructed a set of general questions based on existing theories of empowerment, and then used latent variable analysis to understand the underlying structure of empowerment locally. We repeated this analysis at follow-up to understand whether the structure of empowerment had changed over time, and then measured changes in both the levels and likelihood of empowerment over time. We show that the Solar Market Garden significantly positively impacted women's empowerment, particularly through the domain of economic independence. In addition to providing rigorous evidence for the impact of a rural renewable energy project on women's empowerment, our work lays out a methodology that can be used in the future to benchmark the gender impacts of energy projects. |
英文关键词 | photovoltaic drip irrigation energy access Solar Market Garden Benin women' s empowerment Sustainable Development Goals |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000410459000002 |
WOS关键词 | ELECTRICITY ACCESS ; IRRIGATION ; POVERTY ; ENERGY ; GENDER |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/15087 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Calif San Diego, Sch Global Policy & Strategy, San Diego, CA 92103 USA; 2.Univ Arizona, Mel & Enid Zuckerman Coll Publ Hlth, Tucson, AZ USA; 3.Stanford Univ, Ctr Food Secur & Environm, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; 4.Stanford Univ, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Burney, Jennifer,Alaofe, Halimatou,Naylor, Rosamond,et al. Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women's empowerment[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,12(9). |
APA | Burney, Jennifer,Alaofe, Halimatou,Naylor, Rosamond,&Taren, Douglas.(2017).Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women's empowerment.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,12(9). |
MLA | Burney, Jennifer,et al."Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women's empowerment".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 12.9(2017). |
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